Spy Lingo
A COMPENDIUM OF TERMS USED IN THE INTELLIGENCE TRADE
SpyLingo are real-world tradecraft terms used by spies belonging mainly to the Five Eyes, an alliance of intelligence agencies between the United States, the United Kingdom, Canada, Australia and New Zealand. You may also find them in countries where English is a second or third language, as in India. The Cold War could be to blame for this, as it exposed the purposefully dark world of espionage to the zeitgeist through spy fiction; most notably that of John le Carré.